From Siraf to Sumatra: Seafaring and Spices in the Islamicate Indo-Pacific, Ninth-Eleventh Centuries C.E.
This dissertation is a study of early Islamicate commerce in natural luxuries of the tropical Indian Ocean and Western Pacific Rim, such as spices, ambergris and pearls, between the ninth and eleventh centuries C.E. I approach this topic by looking at a wide array of textual sources, from geographie...
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Harvard University
2013
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| Online Access: | http://dissertations.umi.com/gsas.harvard:10805 http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:11158242 |